Intro to Visual Practice / Fall 2010

The dream drawing machine allows people to express their dreams, without even having to remember what happened.  This machine will operate similarly to an fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging).  It will be hooked up to the person’s brain, most likely through leads.  Then, when they are dreaming, the machine will record the images that appear into a computer database.  Once it collects the images, the machine will then produce a drawing depicting the main idea of the dream.  It will do this by taking into account the most frequent images that appear in one’s mind.  This dream drawing machine can also associate emotions and feelings within a dream to colors and tone, adding another layer that sets the mood of the situation.

The following productions are examples of what the dream drawing machine could create.  I created these from dreams that I’ve had in the past.

I once had a dream that I was transforming into No Face, the monster from Spirited Away, in a room that was full of optical illusions.

I had a dream that I was talking to an old schoolmate who I hadn’t seen for a long time;  he was wearing blue lipstick.

In this dream, the world was ending at 6:32 PM EST.